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The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government. Edited by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 288p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2005

Mark Silverstein
Affiliation:
Boston University,,

Abstract

Ted Lowi once wrote that scandals are a proper subject for the political scientist because the observer is catching the country in the act of being itself (Theodore J. Lowi, "Fore- word," in Andrei S. Markovits and Mark Silverstein, eds., The Politics of Scandal: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies, 1988, p. xii). Lowi's remark seems particularly apt when applied to the study of politics in the United States. At the heart of the American political tradition lies an acute ambiv- alence concerning the nature and uses of political power.

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Book Review
Copyright
2001 by the American Political Science Association

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